Routed optical networks

Fri May 5 19:30:57 UTC 2023

On 5/5/23 19:02, Jared Brown wrote:

> You can get 100G optics for less than half those prices.
>
> For reference, here are publicly listed prices for optics from an European vendor I have in production:
>
> 100G 4WDM & CLR4 QSFP28
> * 10 km
> * 225€
> 100GBASE-LR4 & OTU4 & 128GFC QSFP28
> * 20km
> *305€
> 100GBASE-ER4 Lite & OTU4 & 128GFC QSFP28
> * 40 km
> * 1030€
> 100GBASE-ZR4 QSFP28
> * 80 km
> * 1650€
> 100GBASE-ZR4+ QSFP28
> * 100 km
> * 2100€
>
> These prices are for single units without discounts.

It wasn't so much about the pricing that I was posting, but more about 
the value of 100Gbps over anything slower, if your main incentive is 
optics price.

Mark.